Cambridge was in fourth place, down from second last year, and Oxford was sixth, down from third.

剑桥从去年的榜眼掉到了第四，而牛津也从第三滑落到第六。

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Harvard University, which placed second last year to BYU, closed the gap, narrowly missing the title of most popular, which it once held.

哈佛大学去年的受欢迎度仅次于杨百翰大学，今年弥补了差距，但是还是差一点点而没有赢得“最受欢迎的大学”的称号。

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Last year, he was ranked second in his age group.

他去年在他的年龄段排名第二。

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OK. The next largest element has to end up in the second last spot. Et cetera. All right, so it's called bubble sort because it does this bubbling up until it gets there.

好的，下一个最大元素又,能跑到倒数第二的位置，等等如此，好的，这称为冒泡排序,因为这个泡泡一直冒到他自己的位置。

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All right, I've got to do one pass to bubble the last element to the end. I've got to do another pass to bubble the second last element to the end.

好的，我要冒一次泡来,把最大的元素冒到最后去,我还得再冒一次泡来吧第二大的元素。

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